Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

This Saturday I went skiing. It was a beautiful day especially in the morning. Again I participated in giant slalom training. I've gone skiing 10 time for this winter, twice as many as this time of last winter. The reason for this is I'm mentally and physically in shape much more than last year. Although workload has been rather increased, it looks like that I've been acquiring how to handle my workload and communication related to it. Fun pastime like skiing and video games help me stay in mentally in shape, as well as improved communications in my workplace.

Since this afternoon it's been snowing. The snow is so wet and so much that it can easily pile on the road and sidewalk. When I left my workplace traffic was a little bit jammed. The walkable track was so narrow that sidewalk was also a little bit jammed. Most people was putting up umbrella. Fortunately the train I took only had a little delay, but some railroad lines had power failure and services were disrupted. I saw lots of people waiting in line on a platform. When I was back the station near home snow became a little bit drier, but still wetter and much. Tomorrow it's going to be windy in the eastern area, and have much snow in the western area of Sendai area.

My mental state has been fine although my workload, along with the data I have to search, has been increased by the end of January. Around this time of the year, I was often under the weather or depressed in the past few years. I hope this good mental condition will last through this season. Maybe having enough rest and having fun is the key to keep my mental condition good.

Today my PC had a BIOS update. Its manufacturer had informed me by an app. I haven't known that a BIOS can be updated by running a program on Windows. Speaking of updates, I've heard that Windows 10, the next version of Windows can be updated for free from Windows 7 or newer version. I'm thinking of whether to update, so I'm a little bit anxious for the news of its release.

I was in the first year of university when I first learned about the email system. In a class of information processing, students are told to use email and have communication with the teacher. I was so shy that it took a lot of time, perhaps the entire class hour to send an email even though teaching assistants helped me with the mail app, and even though anything would be OK with the subject and the body, even blank would be OK. I was extremely afraid that someone else in front of another computer would see what I have typed. The message from the teacher appeared on my screen, "Why don't you chat with me?". Would the teacher and anyone else would see if I type some words? (This is probably a function of a chat software, but of course I couldn't tell email from chat.) With many help, I manage to pass the exam of this subject, but it took much longer time for me really to get used to use emails. Even 5 years later since then, when I was in graduate school, I som...

When I was child I didn't really understand that people pay money when they buy things. Then what did I do when I wanted some toy or computer game? I bought by my money (allowance), but if my memory serves I never myself went to the counter to pay money when I was in elementary school. Instead, I asked my parents to buy them by subtracting from my account. When I entered junior high school, as many teenagers do, I was interested in music artist and apparels. I also wanted to buy some books and stationery. (I didn't have the habit to take notes until I chose and bought stationary for myself, but it's another story.) I browsed shops dealing with these things, but didn't had courage to buy one of those goods. More exactly, I didn't know how to buy, where to go when I wanted to buy, or maybe I knew but I wasn't for sure I was going to succeed to buy if I go to the place I have in mind. One problem was I was afraid that someone was watching me buying somethi...

One inhabitant in my mind is a pessimistic English speaker. He likes to speak word to discourage other people. Whenever someone is trying hard to improve their English, he tell them cynical and pessimistic thing. Although he doesn't often talk about other people, he try to draw attentions to him by speaking nonsense, most of which few people are interested in. He even try to tell things almost nonsense to the people they are talking to, for example the sizes of the tires of cars, types of cabinets of electric meters, labels on electric poles, and so on. In my mind is another inhabitant, who really wants to improve quality of his communication, making efforts to know the things and ways people who he is going to talk to would feel comfortable. He learned the word, hospitality, this is "When I learned I should learn how for me to realize hospitality". He try to deny the residence, who want to talk about no one would be interested in. He wants to lock up hi...